To be fair, Agent Carter, while a step forward, doesn't make the full nine yards. It was only a mini-series, not a marquee production like a feature-length film or full-season series. Also, she's tightly tied to a famous male character; it was kind of The Captain America's Girlfriend Hour as Cap figures heavily into…

Seems like a natural place for her to show up. Someone else in this thread suggested she'd be a good character for Agents of SHIELD, too.

I was thinking maybe in the scheduled Inhumans movie, but AoS would work, too. Her powers are maybe too SFX heavy for TV, though.

Good point. I'd never thought of it that way but analog clocks provide a geometric representation of time so you can directly map time durations to space durations (angles, specifically).

Yes, the new Ms. Marvel is great and upends a lot of stereotypes, including stereotypes about comics themselves. It also gives the lie to the anti-PC complaints that providing a character a background that isn't totally whitebread is somehow a gimmick. Kamala isn't arbitrarily Muslim in order to fulfill some diversity…

I caught that the other day when I was re-watching The Avengers. I wasn't sure at first because you don't get a close-up of him.

This is actually just providing more evidence for the uncertainty principle.

Could be great but doesn't sound like it's gonna satisfy my Runaways jones.

I've never really had a lot of interest in this character, but I like Valentine's short fiction so maybe I'll check it out.

Yikes.

I think this is partly a thing of the time period. When reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, I was struck by how much the famous scientist character, Aronnax, would take the time to describe the taste of every exotic marine animal they came across. In those days, even the scientists' first thoughts upon seeing a…

Well, C has been around for 40-something years already. I think CS technologies can last if they are robust enough. Not to mention that legacy code will probably keep old tech knowledge around much longer than expected.

I can read an analog clock. Do they even teach kids that now?

I just don't see what's so skeptical about investigating improbable phenomena like the paranormal. It seems the opposite of skeptical. Maybe I'm missing the point.

I poked around a bit on the Skeptic website and I honestly can't decide if I'd call it skeptical or credulous.

I think the most interesting would be some kind of extinct hominid, something not too far removed from us, like Neanderthal.

Counterpoint: milk is delicious.

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+1 for Wheel of Time. I don't know how many times I reread one or more of those books just to figure out the newest one.

Lord of the Rings. First read it around 25 years ago, when I was 11 or so. I don't know how many times I've read it; around 6 or 7 probably. There's so much going on here — it's just so rich — that it just never gets stale. The continual onslaught of movies also encourages revisiting the source.